Check-holder



(No Model.)

B. STERLING. CHECK HOLDER.

No 656,871. Patented Mar, 24, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

EDW'ARD STERLING, OF FORT KVAYNE, INDIANA.

CHECK-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,87 1, dated March 24, 1896.

Application filed June 20, 1895. Serial No. 553,409. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD STERLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Advertising Check-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device for advertising to be used in connection with a checkholder. The object of my invention is to provide a check-holder for holding checks in a compact form, and in which single pieces of checks representing various values or denominations may be readily placed and quickly and easily taken out, and the cover of which as a hinged display-plate may be utilized as a conspicuous and attractive advertising medium, espeoially in barber-shops. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a cross-section al view of the device. Fig. 2 is a sectional front view, partly broken away, showing the cover as an advertising-plate in its normal position; and Fig. 3 is a front elevation View of the holder or receptacle with the cover raised, showing the checks in position in the chambers of the holder.

Similar figures refer to similar throughout the several views.

All the parts except the glass face of the cover are preferably of metal.

The check-receptacle consists of a back 1, partitions 2 2, and a base-plate 9, preferably cast in one piece and mounted upon standards or legs 12, which are attached to the receptacle by any suitable means, as a screwthreaded lug 11, inserted in the base-plate 9, as shown in Fig. 1. The partitions 2 2 separate the receptacle into a series of chambers of any desired number, open at the top and front, and of suflicient dimensions to readily admit placing the metal checks 6 therein at the top of the chambers.

The base-plate 9 has a suitable opening 10 parts .with ends 13, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and has lugs on the lower front edge, leaving spaces 15 between the lower edge of the front and the base-plate 9 just sufliciently large to admit of only one check being withdrawn at a time. The inner edges of the frame of the cover are rabbeted on the back, as indicated by the numeral 8, into which is 'iitted a removable glass plate secured in the frame by pins 7 or by any other suitable means.

The cover 3 is hinged or pivoted at each end to the receptacle by bolts 14. passing through perforations in the ends of the cover and screwed into flanges or lugs at the ends of the receptacle, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The cover thus hinged can be readily raised into the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus giving ready access to the checks in the chambers and the advertising-card in the rear, as hereinafter described.

Back of and against the glass l is placed any advertising-card 5, secured in place by the pins 7. Upon the front of the cover-frame at either the lower or upper edge, as may be preferred, in front of each chamber are numerals indicating the denominations of the checks in the adjacent chamber, as shown by the heavy-faced figures 10, 15 and 20 in Fig. 2.

The checks are withdrawn from below in so simple a manner that neither spring nor follower is necessary, as they will keep in position by their own gravity, and when there is but one left it will naturally fall on the same bed and can be withdrawn as easily as the previous ones. 7 By passing the finger under the check and holding it lightly in contact therewith the undermost one will be removed simultaneously with the withdrawal of the The checks can be. readily placed into the chambers at the top when the cover is in its normal position without disturbing the cover and are easily accessible from the front when in the chamber by simply raising the cover on its hinges.

The sides of the cover when closed form the exterior sides of the outer chambers at either end and thus obviate the necessity of closed ends of the receptacle. It is obvious, however, that the receptacle may be constructed with closed ends'and the ends 13 of the cover omitted, the cover in such case being attached by arms hinged upon the bolts 14 and oper* ated substantially as shown in the drawings.

My device is not intended to be rigidly attached to any shelf or support, but may be so, if desired. hen used in barber-shops it can be placed upon a shelf in front of the mirror, where the advertising-card Will be conspicuously in view of any one in the barbers chair, and the occupants attention will necessarily be attracted to it with much more than a passing glance. It can be made in attractive and novel designs and be plated with nickel or other metal and will be a useful and admirable method of advertising as well as convenient and useful. as a check and token holder.

I am aware that devices for holding coins in a series of chambers or tubes have heretofore been used, and I therefore do not claim them broadly; but

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A portable advertising check holder for barbers use consisting of a metallic check-receptacle cast in a single piece having a series of chambers separated by partitions open at the top and front, and a base-plate with openings into the bottom of said chambers, adapted for withdrawing checks therefrom, combined with a cover extending from the base to and above the top of the receptacle as shown, and laterally the length of the receptacle with rectangular closed ends, of the same height and depth of the receptacle, and hinged or 'pivoted at the upper rear part of the closed ends to lugs in the back of said receptacle as shown, andwhich cover when in its normal position closes and forms a front for the interior chambers and a front and exterior sides for the end chambers, and when raised upon its hinges is supported in an upright position by the upper part of the cover resting against the back of the receptacle and exposes the chambers for placing in and taking out the checks at the top or front thereof, and the face of which cover when closed is vertical and adapted to receive in its front an adver- 

